Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell – Our Review

Our Review…

Christopher may look like a normal boy on the outside but animals both wild and tame have long known better. Dogs, mice, ravens, owls, even deer will unswervingly seek him out.

So when he pulls a half drowned baby Griffin from a highland lake when he is visiting his reclusive grandfather  he is only a little surprised. Reluctantly his father reveals their guardianship of the archipelago, the hidden group of islands that still harbours all creatures magical and the humans that live there.

Hot on the heels of this revelation, tumbles Mal out of the magical world fleeing the ‘murderer’, she is feisty, brave and adventurous with her flying coat.

Impossible Creatures is simply compulsive reading for the young and mature readers – including parents. With echoes of Philip Pullman and complete with its own Guardians Bestiary, it’s a winning read.

Review by Nicole @ Great Escape Books

‘A marvellous, imaginative fantasy told with great style and sparkle a book to race through in a day and keep for a lifetime’ Jacqueline Wilson
‘The world of this new book is so intriguing and so well put together that I couldn’t resist it. Readers who already know her books will seize this with delight, and new readers will love it and demand all her others at once’ – Philip Pullman
‘Katherine Rundell is a phenomenon.’ Neil Gaiman

‘A masterpiece to rival Tolkien and Pullman’ The Daily Telegraph

‘Fantastically exuberant, wildly imaginative, impossibly brilliant. Rundell’s best, which is something to be marvelled at’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave